Rail-fastening.



PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

G. A! WEBER.

RAIL FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28, 1903.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Patented August 4, 1903.

OFFICE.

GEORGE A. WEBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE WEBER RAIL- WAY JOINT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N.'Y., A COR- PORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA:

RAIL-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ZPatentNo. 735,630, dated August 4, 1903. Application filed February 23, 1903. Serial No. 145,539 (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. WEBER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of the .borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in. Rail-Eastenings, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings.

My invention relates to rail-fastenings and its objects are to improve upon the construction of suchapparatus and render the fastening more efficient and strong, while affording provision for the adjustment of therailr Further objects of my invention will hereinafter appear; and to these ends my inven-' tion consists of a rail-fastening for carrying out the above objects, embodying the features of construction,, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully described and claimed in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of a rail-fastening embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end viewof the same with the rail in transverse section. Figs. 3 and 4 are plan and side views of one of the rail-clips.

Referring to the drawings, a shoe angle or plate O is shown in connection with the railfastening. In this instance the base of the rail rests upon the shoe-angle O, and a portion of the base extends within the reverselybent portion R of the shoe-angle. One of the rail-clips, as D, bears upon the shoe-angle C and upon one side of the base of the rail and is secured in position by means of the bolt E, provided with the nut L. At the other side of the fastening interlocking connections are provided between the shoe-angle O and the rail-clip T. As shown in this instance, one edge of the shoe-angle is provided with the hook U, while the clip T is fashioned to cooperate with said hook by having formed 7 therein another hook V. The rail-clip T is also provided with an extended portion W, which bears upon the top of the reversely-bent portion R of the shoeangle 0. The bolt E, provided with the nut L, secures the clip T in position, and the heads of the bolts E bear upon the bearingplate X beneath the tie. The bolts E extend substantially vertically through the tie B; but I am not to be understood as limiting myself to vertical bolts, for they may extend at an angle through the tie, if desired. The bolt-apertures in the clips D and T are elongated, as shown, to afiord provision for adjusting the clips relatively to the bolts 'to permit adjustment of the shoe-angle O and also to permit adjustment of the rail relatively to the shoe-angle.

for securing the clips, for substantially the purposes set forth. I

2. In a rail-fastening, the combination with the tie, of a shoe-angle comprising a plate one end of which is reversely turned to form av clamp, a rail supported upon said shoe-angle, one of the flanges of the rail being thrust beneath the reversely-turned portion of the shoeangle, said shoe-angle being provided with a hook adjacent to the reversely-turned portion thereof, a rail-clip for clamping one flange of the rail to the shoe-angle and tie, and another rail-clip provided with a hook cooperating with the hook on the shoe-angle for clamping the shoe-angle to the tie, and bolts extending through the tie and clips for securing them in position, for substantially the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. GEORGE A. "WEBER.

Witnesses:

A. L. OBRIE E. VAN ZANDT. 

